Life at Full Speed

I don't think I already posted this, but my amazing wedding photographers have a new website (http://hiyapapaya.com/blog/) and right now they have Brock and Liliana's wedding pictures posted, so all you PPM peeps can check it out!!!

A side note... I got accepted to Westminster College's Accelerated BBA program!! Ok, so it's not that hard to get in, but I love how this program is set up. You have a project each semester that you complete on your own schedule with the exception of two residency days that you come on campus and work with your project coach. If you complete a project before the end of the semester you can move on to the next one and so it's possible to complete the entire program within a year to 18 months. Plus, I can do it while I work full-time and complete my other classes at SLCC. The program schedule is almost ridiculous. The applications are due tomorrow, the required orientation is next Friday and Saturday (I have to read and be ready to discuss a book called The Three Signs of a Miserable Job by then) and the first residencies are May 22nd and July 10th. Unfortunately, I am going to be in Boston for Neal's wedding on May 22nd so I'll have to make that one up later, but the July 10th one means we will miss out on the Gordon family reunion. I swear Nate's family must think I'm trying to avoid spending time with them. I promise, Gordon clan, I'm just a super super super busy person, even when I was living at home my own family barely saw me for all the time I spent at school and work. So that's kind of a bummer, but it's worth the sacrifice right now to get my Bachelor's because I feel like I'm really old not to have it by now.

Lastly, I am a pretty big fan of GLEE and the episode they had this week had so many good songs I added most of them to my blog playlist. Listen and be fulfilled.

Disneyland in a Day

Last weekend Nate and I took a road trip down to SoCal because I've been really really busy and I was getting stressed. So even though we had little money (which turned to none by the time we got back), and little time, we still went. Who knows how long we'll have to spontaneously impoverish ourselves? We stayed with Keely the Rockstar and her two roommates who were awesome^2.

Keely the Rockstar took us to Disneyland and within a day we rode every ride we wanted to and half of the ones at California Adventure Park. I totally loved the Pirates of the Caribbean with the new Jack Sparrow additions, Peter Pan ride made me feel whimsical, and the Tower of Terror ride is THE. BEST. RIDE. EVER. And the firework show at the end of the day almost made me cry.

Unfortunately when we got there we had forgotten our money in our car and had to borrow some from Keely and realized we left the memory card for our camera in Utah. So we have one picture on our camera's internal memory but no card to upload it to our computer. BUT we did run into my friend Amber while we were there and she took a picture so I have proof we went, hahahahaha! It pays to have a lot of friends that you could randomly run into at times when you don't have a camera at Disneyland.

Also, Sunday was spent on the beach. Every Sunday should be spent on the beach. Why did I come back?

In short, last weekend rocked. As for family updates, Nate was awarded a SLCC scholarship to attend The LeaderShape Institute. It's a national leadership conference that takes place at a mansion in Champaign, Illinois with students all over the United States. I went in 2004 and made some really good friends from Detroit, Boston, Chicago, and Richmond. It also was life-changing experience for me and I learned a lot about myself and what qualities I admire and detest in others. I'm really excited for him to go. As for me, I've submitted my application for the Bachelor's in Business Administration at Westminster College and should be hearing back from them any day now. Cross your fingers!!!